Sep 19, 2012

Samsung already denied plans to make the successor of Galaxy S III official at next year’s Mobile World Congress, but the company is now confirmed to be indeed working on a new flagship smartphone.

Dubbed Samsung TE4, the handset was spotted in a benchmark with an Exynos 5 Dual processor packed inside, which includes 1.7 GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 CPU and Mali-T604 GPU. The Exynos 5 chip is a powerful piece of silicon, and Samsung has been long rumored to plan including it inside a new high-end smartphone.

While next year’s Galaxy S 4 could prove to be that device, AndroidAndMe also suggests that it might be packed in a smartphone before this year’s end, most probably inside a new Nexus phone from Samsung. With no specific info on the matter available as of yet, this remains in the rumor side, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it actually panned out.